Word: capes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Should the government release Francis Rowan, in exchange for the remains of the Unknown Soldier? While Booth and the others hide out on Cape Cod with the coffin, and the FBI launches the largest man-hunt in the history of the nation, Griese and the President realize that the American public wants its coffin back at any cost, even that of releasing an anti-war radical. Griese takes a quick helicopter trip to arrange the release with Rowan, and after some negotiation, the deal...
Meanwhile, back at the Cape, a paid FBI informer has tracked down the coffin. He gets together with the local police, and they decide to be heroes; they will capture the thieves themselves. From then on, it is only a matter of time before the book (and most of the movement members) ends in a fiery battle for the Unknown's remains...
Paul G. Yearwood '80 is going on a cruise party around Cape Ann, where he spent his summer. Robert A. Smith '81 is going back to Cape Cod after summering there. "Just cross the Bourne Bridge," he said Friday. "It's a nice escape...
...Malay Archipelago; during the first few years of the settlement, he encouraged his men to marry slave women who had been converted to Christianity. There was also casual mating between visiting European sailors and local nomadic Hottentot women, and between slaves, half-breeds and the Hottentots. In 1682 the Cape colony rulers decreed that whites could not marry freed slaves of "full color" but could continue to marry half-breeds. Nonetheless, "irregular unions" continued...
Most of the 2.5 million coloreds live in the western Cape Province; there are also small pockets near Durban, Natal and Johannesburg. They generally speak Afrikaans, the language of the Dutch settlers. They have better employment opportunities-and are usually paid more-than blacks, particularly in the Cape, where many hold skilled or semiskilled jobs that would be reserved for whites in Johannesburg. But like blacks, and Asians, they are subject to rigid apartheid laws that designate where they may live, what public facilities they may use and that, of course, forbid them to marry whites...